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Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau

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Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau, Hedwigia 52: 196 (1912)
Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
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Cosmopolitan

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(Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau
Ach.
Lettau
1912
196
ICN
species
Candelariella xanthostigma

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xanthostigma

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Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau

Thallus lemon yellow to yolk-yellow, farinose-leprose or minutely granular or dissolving in soredia, granules 30-60 µm diam., often widely dispersed. Apothecia rare, to 0.9 mm diam., adnate between soredia, plane to subconvex, margins thin, entire, becoming sorediate-leprose, concolorous with thallus. Epithecium granular, yellow to orange-yellow. Hymenium 65-75 µm tall. Hypothecium colourless. Paraphyses slender, subcapitate at apices, simple, rarely branched. Asci broadly clavate. Ascospores numerous, oblong to ovoid, 9-15 × 4-5 µm. Chemistry: Calycin and pulvinic dilactone.

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Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau
Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers.) Lettau
Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau
Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers.) Lettau
Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau
Lichen xanthostigma Pers.
Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau

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Candelariella xanthostigma (Pers. ex Ach.) Lettau
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District

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1e474cad-11a7-4f54-ac93-52af15fc2ef2
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
1 May 2020
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